Intuitions in Literature, Technology, and Politics [electronic resource] : Parabilities /
Clinton, Alan Ramón.author.
Using the idea of 'parability,'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramón Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Pynchon, Eco, Forché, Merrill, Weiner, Plath, Ashbery, and Eigner.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Permissions; Acknowledgments; 1 Intuitions In: Methodologies; 2 Space, Spectrality, and Parability; 3 Conspiracy of Commodities: Encyclopedic Narrative and Crowdedness; 4 From Spectacle to Fascicle: Walter Benjamin, Carolyn Forché, and Messianic History; 5 Spectral Conversions: James Merrill and Hannah Weiner; 6 Sylvia Plath and Electracy: Spectral Poetics With(out) Specters; 7 The Wireless Spaces of Ashbery and Eigner; 8 Louis Zukofsky and Quantum Criticism (A/One Conclusion); Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Using the idea of 'parability,'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramón Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Pynchon, Eco, Forché, Merrill, Weiner, Plath, Ashbery, and Eigner.
America—Literatures.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
North American Literature.
Literary Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.